Leonardo Da Vinci's Last Supper

Leonardo da Vinci’s fresco of The Last Supper is the subject of this article by Tomas Garcia-Salgado, entitled, “The Reverse Outlining Perspective of Leonardo's Last Supper and Its Image Formation.” The author explains a technique he calls “Reverse Outlining Perspective,” in which he essentially outlines the points in the painting in order to explain where the eye is drawn. The central figure in the painting is Christ, so naturally da Vinci painted him at the center. But Garcia-Salgado takes it a step further to show that by drawing diagonal lines across this painting, we find what is called the vanishing point. This is shown also by the perspective of the tapestries on the walls and the coffers of the ceiling, which all are drawing the